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Christopher Live in 2012
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Background information | |
Birth name | Christopher Lund Nissen |
Born |
Frederiksberg |
January 31, 1992
Origin | Denmark |
Genres | Pop |
Occupation(s) | Singer and songwriter |
Instruments | Vocal,guitar and piano |
Years active | 2011 – present |
Labels | EMI Denmark |
Associated acts |
Frida Amundsen Molly Sandén |
Website | http://christophermusic.dk/ |
Christopher Nissen (born January 31, 1992) is a Danish singer from Copenhagen, signed to EMI Denmark. In November 2012, he won an award at the Danish Music Awards 2012. He was awarded New Thinker of the Year (Årets nytænker), given by Spotify as an innovation prize. Christopher gets his inspiration for Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars and John Mayer. Christopher's songs include "CPH Girls" and "Tulips", which will also be released in China. On January 29, 2016 he released a new song called "Limousine" with the artist Madcon.
Christopher started singing covers of others' singer's songs. His debut single was "Against the Odds", co-written by Kay & Ndustry, Kasper Larsen, Ole Brodersen, Curtis Richa and Johan Wetterberg, and produced by Kay & Ndustry and GL Music's Lasse Lindorff. It was released in September 2011, reaching number 23 on the Danish Singles Chart. The accompanying music video is directed by Nicolas Tobias Følsgaard and Jonas Lodahl Andersen. His follow-up single "Nothing in Common" entered the Danish Singles Chart at number 5 in 2012. His debut album is Colours. He released "Told You So" in late 2013 and he released his newest single "Crazy" on January 31, 2014. "CPH Girls" was Christopher's 1st single number one in Denmark. On August 7, his single "Tulips" came out in Denmark, Norway and China, and "Tulips" quickly went number 1 in Denmark. Christopher's third studio album came out on April 15.
He was born in Frederiksberg, but later moved to Amager, Denmark with his parents and little brother Oliver. In 2012 Christopher moved in with his girlfriend the Danish singer Medina. The couple later split up. Since 2014 Christopher has been in a relationship with the Danish model Cecilie Haugaard. Today the couple lives in Amager on a property worth 6,720,000 Danish Kroner. Christopher and Cecilie Haugaard have been together for one year in 2015.
Colours Tour 2012-2013
Christopher Tour 2013
Told you So Tour 2014-2015
Tulips Tour 2015
Closer Tour 2016